J. R. R. Tolkien
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Lines from The Shire
To write poetry was one of Tolkien’s first ambitions
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Tolkien, 50 years on
The true scale of his legacy is gradually becoming apparent
Tolkien and environmentalism
The author of The Lord of the Rings despaired of the modern world
Between Middle Earth and the West
130 years from his birth, what can we learn from Tolkien?
Bored of the Rings
Is it time for the Tolkien industry to give it a rest?
Woke of the Rings
The Tolkien society is scanning the author’s work for signs of cishetero amatonormativity
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get